Techie question for the flist

[kelly_girl]

So I want to watch some stuff on Hulu(or other things i download) but not on my computer. I want to watch it on my TV. Is there something I can buy that will let me go to hulu on my computer then watch the ep or whatever on my Television?

Computer is fairly new, less than 2 years old. TV is older but we play WII on it so it has the red,white and yellow outlets.


Thanks!

Comments

[kernelm.livejournal.com]

It's really going to depend on what kind of output your video card supports. Do you have the exact model of the computer and/or the video card? If it has, say, an S-Video output (this), you can probably use something like this S-Video -> RCA cable. That also includes the audio cable to plug in to your audio out port.

Otherwise, hopefully there's at least a second VGA port (the normal monitor port). If you only have one monitor port, you'd want to get a VGA splitter first like this. It's not guaranteed to work perfectly, but hopefully it does so you don't have to mess with an amplified splitter. Once you've got that, you need something to convert VGA into RCA (the red/white/yellow). Then you'd have to set up something like this VGA -> RCA/SVideo converter. Actually you might want to combine that with the SVideo cable above that also includes sound. And it looks like it has VGA passthrough so you wouldn't really need the VGA splitter above.

[kelly-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have so much I want to watch this fall but I don't want to sit at the computer the whole time.

[ninasis.livejournal.com]

There is something we saw at Best Buy a couple of weeks ago that hooks into your computer and then into your TV to let you stream content. I can't remember what it was called though. It was around $120, if I remember correctly, for the cheapest one. (I want to say it was something like WebTV or something with web in the title.)

I know Netflix is getting ready to start streaming some content thru the Wii, like they do currently thru the 360. If you had a 360 there are a ton of cool things I could help you with to watch media content on your TV.

Have you purchased the internet browser for the Wii? I'm almost certain that my husband was able to access YouTube via that browser on ours, but I don't know about Hulu.

[kelly-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I thought I'd heard about something at Best Buy too. I'll have to try and go this weekend to look for that or for the cables Kern gave me.

I'll have to consider that web browser for WII too. I've been wanting to get that for some games too.

[kernelm.livejournal.com]

The web browser for the Wii is actually free now. And yeah, you can watch Youtube, but I'm pretty sure you can't watch Hulu. They really don't want people watching Hulu on anything but computers.

And there's lots of media streamers out there, but they'll be more expensive. I just remembered there's TVersity which is free/cheap software you can use to stream to your Wii. I've been meaning to try it out but I haven't yet. It looks like the Pro version does support Hulu, at least for now.

Also, I would highly recommend not using Best Buy for cables and such. They're always waaaaaaaay overpriced. The Monster crap is the worst, but even their generic cables are ridiculous.

[kelly-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning about Best Buy. We have lots of other stores here so I'm sure one of them will have the cables too.

Not a technical reply.

[peach1250.livejournal.com]

Did you watch the new NCIS? And did you hear the comment in the preview, when G said to his LL's character somthing about'godd you aren't cheating on me'.

The writers are making it easy for the slashers.

Re: Not a technical reply.

[kelly-girl.livejournal.com]

I watched! And there was great joy. And yes I saw the preview. And the long looks and smiles. I babbled about it a entry or two back. I'm liking the show and maybe having two new guys to write about.

[faithpitts.livejournal.com]

Just like the others said, there's this cable you can plug into your TV and it can switch it so you see the computer screen or actual television. It's rad. My sister has it at her apartment, and it's fun to watch youtube and hulu stuff on it.

and there's also a box which pretty much does the same thing.